The Universal Nation

~ It Is Time to Be ONE ~

Transcending the system of nations as independent sovereign states is the present paradigm and the greatest global need and the solution to many of the major problems of modern humankind, all at once. It is a vibrant truth that the twenty-first century shall end with no constituted nations such as we understand them today. For individuals, as well as for peoples, being rightly oriented in their own time is the key-note to leading a sensible life in tune with the nature and needs of that time.

If at the beginning of the twentieth century the peoples and governments of the world had grasped the true nature and need of their time, they would have prevented humanity from experiencing some of the greatest pains and torments in its history, such as massacres of all kinds, senseless fights, genocides, national and continental divisions, ideological persecutions, dictatorial regimes, and even two world wars. All of these had to be given up, and their opposite expression has replaced them every time: The then countries being at war with each other are now united under a same institutional, geopolitical, economic, and sociocultural framework. The then enemy nations are now walking every possible path to social, cultural, economic, institutional, and political integration. The intransigent ideologies have given way to more inclusive, more just, and more humane thought-lines.

For centuries, the watch telling us the time had been functioning through the same internal system. However its outer form, the watch inside would always bear the same kind of movement. Sometimes the parts would be of steel, sometimes of gold, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, but every time the same system was there making all watches of the world work and strike the time. One day a change of paradigm took place. Someone invented the digital watch:a finer, much more precise, and much less costly mechanism. Not the same system any more. No more wheels, springs, axes, dials, or hands to keep and strike the time. The digital watch represented, then, a great change of paradigm. A much more synthetic, dynamic, accurate, and practical system was born displacing all its predecessors.

Partial international integrations, such as the European Union, as well as purely elitist politico-economic alliances, like the one constituted by the nations of the self-designated “first world,” have proved so far to be only padlocked oasis of disproportionate, undeserved abundance and increasing massive squandering which functionsolelyon the basis of the institutional, social, cultural, economic, and political subjugation and debilitation of the rest of the countries, regions, and continents. They are express declarations of war against the rest of the globe—powerful exclusion shields: ethnic-sealed associations created for those groups’ benefit and sustained on the sacrifice and privation of the rest of the world’s inhabitants and on the degradation and depletion of the natural resources of their corresponding habitats. AnI-save-myself-and-myself-alonetype of strategy disguised in glamorous diplomatic suits. There is today not a single pinch of humanity in such organizations, yet when their initial ideal wasthenadequate for its time.They do not represent the need of our present time. They all are pre- and post-war conceptions based upon the sense of defense from and attack on an enemy and, all at once, are the ultimate, best consummated expression of imperialism and colonialism. Creating today such exclusivist associations only means creating increasingly larger war fronts. It means declaring the rest of the world your ethnic, social, cultural, economic, institutional, political, and spiritual enemy. Their existence leads exclusively to the absolute global economic and ecological collapse. Maintaining these associations means ensuring the mass destruction of the world,which includes them themselves.

World’s present-day need and crisis are of such an immeasurable dimension that solely a world-wide measure can solve them. We must understand, once and for all, thatThe World Is A Global Concern. We must save the human race from experiencing today unnecessary pains and torments. We must not make the same mistake that our previous generation made one hundred years ago, just for a little later in time—such as they did—take to the path of the opposite direction, and only after producing a great deal of destruction and disintegration.

If the world of women and men be one sole and a same Universal Nation, no more need for enemies will again arise anywhere in the world.

The Present and Its Nature

Today we are at the beginning of a new geological period (what many are innocently calling “climate change”). The planet works on cycles; that is its physiology. We are only at the end of one of its geological cycles and entering a new one. At the highest circles of world decision-making, the idea of climate change is firmly settled. No one would dare to doubt this scientifically proven reality.

The geological metamorphosis that is taking place entails, among other factors, a new geographical distribution of the habitable and arable land areas on the planet, and it will also involve the displacement of hundreds of millions of people all over the globe in the years just to come (according to a joint report by theWMO[World Meteorological Organization] and theIOM[International Organization for Migration],One Billionpeople are estimated to leave their places of residence before 2050 due to sea-level rise, floods, and droughts). This geological re-arrangement is of such a magnitude that it will exact from humanity,as a whole, a most strenuous and committed spiritual, intellectual, and physical effort in order to adapt itself to the new universal environmental condition and geographical morphology. It will be the challenge of all times for humanity; a transformation of a nature unseen through the last millennia defying reason and every concept that we may have of our living on Earth. The so-called climate change will only then accelerate the process of integration towards the state of Universalization; directly will it force it to take place allowing no chance for an alternative. To these phenomena, it should be added the unprecedented colossal global demographic explosion which will swell the world population from around6.7 Billionin 2008 to approximately9.2 Billionin 2050 (and it could easily reach11Billion, depending upon some variables, according to the same authoritative sources).

Combined, the unsustainable intentional global inequality, the rapid geological transformation, and the global demographic explosion bring about a universal situation impossible to work out through the present means: famine in the poorer countries shall not go any lesser (it will rather grow wider endlessly); in all countries, the unemployment curve will only rise to no end; technological underdevelopment will deepen vehemently more and more; crises and clashes and conflicts of all kinds will geometrically multiply themselves; everywhere crime will escalate; lack of basic resources and education will augment powerfully; and soon—from the interconnection, the interrelation, the intercommunication, the interactivity, and the interdependence defining and mobilizing our present-day world—the entire world will be equally touched. Yet, leaving out climate change and the demographic explosion, the intentional global inequality isby itselfsufficient to cause the world’s insurmountable collapse of natural, economic, and energy resources at any time from now. The conditions are far too well given, and no more factors are required within the equation. It will occurirremediably and exceedingly soon, unless a transcendental measure of universal proportions is implemented to rectify the wrong course of humanity and neutralize its destructive effects.

The ungovernability and socio-economic unsustainability of the world are today very solidly ensured. Time is strongly against our ignorance, our stupidity, and our personal, collective, and corporative projects, speculations, and ambitions. There is no time in the real sense, and there is all of the time in the potential sense.

The only way to go is Universalization; the establishment of a Universal Nation: No more foreigners, no more emigrants, and no more immigrants in the juridical-political sense. No more frontiers. No more nationalities and national identities.

Global Consciousness

The globe is today at the portals of a new geological period; humankind is at the portals of a new evolutionary stage. The geological processes have always been intertwined with human evolution and the evolution of all of the mineral, plant, and animal species. Each major geological process has represented a challenge and an evolutionary advancement for the planet and the kingdoms of its nature. As every other species of any kingdom, the human race has been responding to each and every major geological proposal with the development of a new higher evolutionary stadium.

The end of a glaciation, approximately 2,600,000 years ago, determined the beginning of the Paleolithic. The end of the last glacial period (which is also the start of the present stable world climatic period) prompted the advent of the Neolithic around 12,000 years ago, marked by the establishment of the first permanent communities together with the development of agriculture and animal domestication. That led to the birth of the first cultures proper, to social organization, to trade, and to incipient forms of government. Later rose the Metal Age, approximately 5,300 years ago, characterized by the emphasis on the systematic development of civilizations and the subsequent constitution of nation states.

The beginning of the new geological cycle that is taking place today should represent the commencement ofGlobal Consciousness, understood as the capacity of the individual to think in terms of the kind which they belong to—humankind—and never in terms of their individual existence as something separate or separable. At the same time, they must be able to think in terms of the universal habitat within which they co-exist and which they co-inhabit—the planet—comprehending that the existence of their kind depends on the existence of this universal habitat which is, simultaneously, the habitat of all other kingdoms of nature and their respective species that have an equal degree of right to exist and prosper to that which the human race possesses.

The principle sustaining the entire universe is, ‘For The Species Exists, The Specimen Exists’, which in human terms means, ‘For The Kind Exists, The Individual Exists. Or, said in another way, ‘Without A Species, There Is No Specimen’, ‘Without A Kind, There Is No Individual’.

Only does an infinity of suns/stars exist; there is no sole sun. Only does an infinity of planets exist; there is no sole planet. Only does an infinity of constellations and galaxies exist; there is no sole constellation or galaxy. Exactly the same happens with all of the beings of all of the kingdoms of our planetary nature. Solely and in truth, the group-collective existence sustains the individual-particular existence, and not otherwise.Anything existing exists in a groupor does not exist at all.

Therefore, in this new time of Global Consciousness, the human race must comprehend, among other things, that

*Prosperity Is Prosperityfor All. Anything else is selfishness, or manipulation, or illegitimate appropriation; andis no prosperity.

*Justice Is Justicefor All. Anything else is crime, or institutionalized partiality, privilege, and abuse, or legalized injustice; andis no justice.

Other words for Global Consciousness can beGlobal Sensitivity,Global Sense,Global Perception,Global Responsiveness,Global Intelligence,Global Inclusivity,Global Responsibility,Planetary Consciousness, andOmniconsciousness. The most accurate synonym for Global Consciousness, with which all of the abovementioned terms can be substituted, is ‘Love’. Love is a universal scientific principle by means of which the entire universe builds and structures itself. In medical sciences, this principle is known as “Homeokinesis” or “Homeostasis”—the principle ofinternal regulationwhereby each atom, cell, and organ is in service of the totality of the system without having any extra function. The present-day disciplinary criterion of the environmental and geological sciences, as well as the very concept of ecology, is getting ever closer to the acknowledgement of the principle of ‘Planetary Homeokinesis’ (or ‘Planetary Homeostasis’) in which the planet in its entirety—from the center of its inner core up through the outermost layer of its atmosphere—is recognized as an all-indivisible, all-responsive, interconnected, interrelated, intercommunicated, interactive, interdependent system.

The first incipient manifestation of global consciousness is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its decisive manifestation should bethe Universal Declaration ofHuman Duties—including those duties towards the planet and all of its kingdoms—thus more in tune with the step into adulthood that humanity must take today.

The development of global consciousness represents the abolition of the age of selfishness in which humanity has been living up to now, wherein someone’s prosperity solely means,in its turn, someone else’s detriment; wherein someone’s well-being solely means,in its turn, someone else’s ill-being.

Global Consciousness is to be to the central pillar upon and around which humanity should build its true global culture, which is the culture of the globalized human being who is enriched, fused, and elevated within diversity:the true World Citizen of this present time; an individual capable of consciously and spontaneously contributing to the general welfare of the planet and the balance of all its kingdoms, wherever they may be and whichever their role, and incapable of performing any other kind of activity. Anything else is no world citizen but a world enemy; someone who consciously or unconsciously contributes to the human and planetary disequilibrium and works against the general well-being.

In the animal kingdom, it is the instinct which takes charge of keeping the balance, prompting the progression, and promoting the evolution, equally indvidually as collectively. In the human kingdom, it is consciousness.

Global consciousness must rule and regulate every human activity without exclusion. Global consciousness must take the place of that which we understand as ‘individual right’ and ‘sovereignty’.

Conclusion

One by one, all socio-political strategies, all financial and economic formulas and systems, and all humanitarian aid policies keep falling down into the abysm of outright failure without getting to solve the grave crises and deep problems of modern humankind. Each of these crises and each of these problems keeps growing very rapidly until reaching world-wide dimensions and affecting equally the entire world. (There are proofs galore and only of this kind.) It is fair to think that quite soon the very need of all the peoples of the world shall lead these to collectively acknowledge that any initiative not being universalization is no solution and represents an anti-evolutionary move at the intellectual, social, cultural, and spiritual levels.

For the first time in the history of civilized humanity, the individual need of any citizen of the globe is the same as the need of their people, of their nation, and of the entire world. That necessitates solely asynthetic,all-includingsolution.The Universal Nation is that very synthesis, and Global Consciousness is its most intrinsic essence and its most supreme duty and right.

Omar Nahúm.

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*I deeply thankMs. Adela Bonasoni(B.S. in Psychology; Therapist; Instructor; Lecturer) [Argentina]andMs. Claudia Silvina Arancio(TV & Radio Broadcast Producer and Director; Journalist; Professor; Book Editor) [Argentina; Mexico]for their great help, rich counsel, and unconditional support in the formulation of these reflections.